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It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

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Re: It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

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Ah so the coding was done locally but run remotely? I nearly went insane when I was forced to code using Citrix.

> Ah so the coding was done locally but run remotely? Both, depending on the case and how much you were inclined to fiddle with your setup. And on what kind of software you were writing (most software had a lot of linux-specific code, so running that on a macbook was not really an option). A lot of colleagues were using either IntelliJ or VScode with proprietary extensions. A lot of my work revolved around writing sc…

Yeah it's always handy to be able to work effectively with just terminal tools.

However, VScode and Zed (my editor of choice) both have pretty decent inbuilt SSH/SFTP implementations so you can treat remote code as if it was local painlessly and just work on it.

Re: It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

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CPU's have stagnated.

3 years ago, I bought a 12900k secondhand because it was near the fastest single core and I basically never max out on multi core.

Every time I think about upgrading, I check the benchmarks and decide it's not worth the hassle.

Even now, almost 4 years after the 12900k's release, it's only 13% slower than the very fastest $$$ processors on single core (9950X).

I'm ignoring the Intel Core Ultras because I don't need those problems in my life.

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